Notion Blue "Out Of Exile"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Format: digital
Release date: March 1, 2024
Tracklist

1. In The Silence (6:27) 

2. Adventurers (5:02) 

3. Children Of Earth (7:32) 

4. King Of The Locusts (4:03) 

5. Come Back To Me (5:33) 

6. Out Of Exile (9:10) 

7. Harbinger (3:15) 

8. Under The Sun (5:23) 

9. Children Of Heaven (7:22) 

Total Time 53:47

Credits

Luke Chase - vocals, guitars, bass

Max Barbi - vocals, synth, keys

Gabe Chase - vocals, drums, percussion

Written & performed by Notion Blue.

Produced & Mixed by Luke Chase.

Cover Art by Rose LaFleur.

Description/Reviews:

"Out Of Exile" is a 9-song concept album that explores themes & events from the Biblical Old Testament. Musically, Notion Blue drew inspiration from a variety of influences for this album, from Peter Gabriel to Tool. Lyrically, the themes explored draw plenty of modern parallels such as injustice, oppression, and seasons of uncertainty, all culminating in a hopeful & uplifting finale. 

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King of the Locusts

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Metro Society "The London Conspiracy Chapter I 1898"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Rock/Metal
Format: digital
Release date: March 1, 2024
Tracklist

1. London 1898 - 2:59

2. City Streets - 7:34

3. Lost Souls - 6:29

4. Pieces of the Past - 9:25

5. Society - 6:37

6. Underground - 5:33

7. Inferno - 7:23

Album Length: 46:02

Credits

Chris Mangold - Guitars/Keys

Ian Ringler (Magnitude 9 / Psyco Drama) - Bass Guitar / 12 String Bass

Will Mangold - Drums

George Margaritopoulos (Wardrum) - Vocals

All songs written by: Chris Mangold, Ian Ringler, Will Mangold

Produced by: Chris Mangold, Ian Ringler, Will Mangold

Mixed and mastered by: Rob Murray and Kyle from Wilderfox Studio, Vermont

Album artwork by: Harley Velasquez at Infinity NucleartStudio

Description/Reviews:

"The London Conspiracy Chapter I 1898" revolves around a gripping story penned by Chris Mangold and Ian Ringler, exploring the thin line between the thirst for knowledge and the addictions of obsession. Set against the backdrop of London in 1898, the Victorian age draws to a close, but the horrors of Jack the Ripper's murders continue to cast a grim shadow over the city.

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City Streets

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Ontologics "It's Safe To Say The Veil Is Thinning"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Experimental, Progressive Rock, Hip Hop
Format: vinyl, digital
Release date: February 29, 2024 (digital), March 2024 (vinyl)
Tracklist

1. Ghouls Get Gone (7:43) 

2. It's Safe To Say The Veil Is Thinning (5:19) 

3. Drifting Into Traffic (6:19) 

4. Passive Aggressive Passion Aggression (5:37) 

5. Simultaneous Experiences (6:46) 

6. Chasten Those That Hassle (7:21) 

7. Villains Shilling (4:44) 

8. Cooking The Books (3:31) 

9. Trenches And Abyss (5:43) 

10. Non-refundable Experiments (6:15) 

11. Mining The Mind Pit (6:36) 

12. The Gallantly Spectating Gold Medal Olympian (8:26) 

Total Time 74:20

Credits

Ian C. - Vocals, Lyrics, Guitars, Percussion, Programming, Midi controllers, keys.

Andy Morris - Drums

    With

P-Nut of 311 (8)

* Bass - Steve Johnson T

Recorded at Ontologics Studios [aka Mr. Magoo Eyes Studios]

Produced by Ontologics

Mixed by Rob Pemberton

Mastered at Star Delta (Lewis Hopkins)

Artwork2 by Maryjka Babiak

Artwork1 by Harry Buntrock

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Candacraig "Lit By Lightning"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Art Rock
Format: CD, digital
Release date: February 23, 2024
Tracklist

1. Gliding Pt 1 (2:48) 

2. Gliding Pt 2 (5:01) 

3. Last Transmission (5:50) 

4. Ash Tree (2:59) 

5. Autumn In New York (3:38) 

6. St Georges Day (3:59) 

7. Electric Meat (3:47) 

8. Hero Of Barnsdale (3:09) 

9. Crow Harvest (5:27) 

10. Fortune Favours The Brave (6:45) 

Total Time 43:23

Credits
Sharon Cannings and Martin Nicholls

Description/Reviews:

 I wouldn’t call it progressive “rock”, as it is quite reserved for the most part.  It has folk character, but it’s not really folk music, either.  You could call it experimental or progressive to some degree, but it also shares DNA with 70s soft rock.  It’s almost like Renaissance and Fleetwood Mac had a baby, and they named it Pink Floyd.  The guitar work is mostly acoustic, but electric guitars are brought in for effect and for some truly great solos.  Sharon’s vocals are golden and passionate, and many of the songs hover upon her vocal exercises before slowly and surely adding layers until, before you even realize it, the song has become a flowing river of melody and various colorful sparks. 

Read the full review by Jason Spencer at theprogmind.com

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Jane Getter Premonition "Division World"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Esoteric Antenna
Format: CD, digital
Release date: February 23, 2024
Tracklist

1. Division World

2. Disspiate

3. The Spark

4. Compass

5. End The Blame

6. Layers

7. Devolution

8. Another Way

9. Mixed Up

10. Rewind Regain

11. Waiting For The Light

Credits

Jane Getter - guitar, vocals

Adam Holzman (Miles Davis, Steven Wilson) - keyboards

Alex Skolnick (Testament) - guitar

Paul Frazier - bass, vocals

Gene Lake - drums

  With

Randy McStine (Lo-fi Resistance, The Fringe) - vocals

Description/Reviews:

Getter has been described as ‘the fieriest fretboarding female ever to strap on a Stratocaster’ – her forte is heavy jazz-fusion with elements of King Crimson, Martin Barre, Steve Vai, a touch of Jeff Beck and a soupçon of Allan Holdsworth. She can play long, languid and lyrical, but also crunchy and hard, with notes tumbling over each other as they burst out of the speakers.

Recently she has been adding her vocals to the mix, and Division World – the third album from the Premonition – is her most song-heavy collection so far, with only one instrumental out of eleven tracks. The vocal numbers are enjoyable in a melodic, AOR fashion and most follow the same pattern: dreamy, gentle openings, getting louder with extended guitar and keyboard breaks in the middle. Getter’s voice is pleasant and tuneful – she reminds me of a mature Barbara Gaskin – but, like the songs, it is not particularly distinctive.

Read the full review by Kevan Furbank at theprogressiveaspect.net

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Division World 

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Deezer

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Kyros "Mannequin"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Progressive Alternative Rock/Pop
Label: White Star Records
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: February 2, 2024
Tracklist

1. Taste the Day (2:26)

2. Showtime (4:10)

3. Illusions Inside (5:09)

4. Esoterica (6:55)

5. The End in Mind (7:41)

6. Digital Fear (3:35)

7. Ghosts of You (5:02)

8. Liminal Space (4:39)

9. Technology Killed the Kids IV (7:26)

10. Have Hope (7:57)

Credits

Shelby Warne:  vocals, keyboards

Joey Frevola: guitars

Charlie Cawood: bass

Robin Johnson: drums

   With

Dominique Gilbert: vocals (3) 

Canyo Hearmichael: saxophone (4)

Description/Reviews:

The upcoming album offers some of the bands most electrifying, fiercely unique and all round breathtaking work to date with 10 tracks of intricate Prog musicianship intertwined with synth-pop influences and topped with some elegant, infectiously catchy melodies. 

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Streams
Ghosts of You
The End in Mind
Esoterica 

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Anchor And Burden "Extinction Level"

Country: Germany
Genre(s): Instrumental Experimental, Avant Prog, Fusion
Label: MoonJune Records
Format: CD,digital,vinyl
Release date: February 2, 2024
Tracklist

1. Fractured Self

2. Body Expansion

3. Mutual Assured Destruction video

4. Nine Gates to Dominion

5. Extinction Phase

6. The Crust of this Earth

Credits

Markus Reuter: Touch Guitars AU8 and S8, Soundscapes

Alexander Paul Dowerk: Touch Guitars S8

Bernhard Wöstheinrich: Keyboards and Electronics

Asaf Sirkis: Drums and Percussion

All music written and performed by Anchor and Burden

Recorded by Arno Jordan at Castle Studios, Röhrsdorf, Germany

Mixed by Stefano Castagna at Ritmo&Blu Studio

Mastered by Lee Fletcher

 

Produced by Markus Reuter and Alexander Paul Dowerk

 

Artwork by Ruben Pang, www.rubenpangstudio.com

Graphic Design by Alexander Paul Dowerk

Description/Reviews:

Anchor and Burden is an uncompromising progressive avantgarde doom-jazz post-metal band based in Berlin, Germany, which has their own style of collective instant composition that defies the norms of creation. They create monolithic doom behemoths only to tear them into shreds with boundless energy in the next moment.

The two 8-string touch guitaristsMarkus Reuter and Alexander Dowerk conjure a wide array of moods with their unique instruments: From ethereal whispers out of sci-fi realms ot cerebral virtuosity that fractures the very psyche unto crushing metal brutality that leaves the listener gasping for their breath.

Bernhard Wöstheinrich weaves a web of synths and self-modulating percussive machinery, an arcane undercurrent beneath the towering monoliths of guitar, as fi sentient space stations traverse the void.

Drummer Asaf Sirkis, the virtuoso master of rhythm, wields his jazz and Indian polyrhythms not merely to forge a pulsating heartbeat, but also to break up and shift the quartet's music into unexpected places with his complex hyper jazz rhythms.

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Quiet Observer "Pocket size universe 2" EP

Country: Ukraine
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Rock/Metal
Format: digital
Release date: January 26, 2024
Tracklist

1. Pocket Size Universe (4:46) 

2. Geisha Assassin (3:28) 

3. Mutual Protection (2:10) 

4. Synthetic Spirit (3:27) 

5. 1000  Suns (3:44) 

Total Time 17:35

Credits

Dennis Fursov (Zolar Czack) - everything

   Except

Denis Shvarts - guest solo ( 2,4)

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Gepetto "Awaiting Madre"

Country: France
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Format: CD
Release date: January 2024
Tracklist

1. Awaiting (25:00)

2. Mother (26:00) 

Credits
George Pinilla: backing vocals (1), vocals and backing vocals (2), bass (2), guitars (electric lead and rhythm, folk, twelve strings and classical nylon), synths, organ, piano and Mellotron 

Laurent Simonnet: additional keyboards and piano (2) 

Luis Puente: piano and Moog synth (1)

Stephan Granjeon: drums and percussion 

Pascal Agard: guitar lead Tiphaine Rivière: bass (1)

Julien Pinilla: final vibraphone (2) 

Chris Palmer: vocals (1) 

Pilar Pinilla Valencia: final voice “la jota navarra”(2) 

Music by George Pinilla (with the “loan” of beautiful melodies by Marc Fernbach (1) and Julien Pinilla (2)) 

Arrangements by George Pinilla and Laurent Simmonet 

Lyrics by Marc Fernbach and Chris Palmer (1) George Pinilla (2)

Lead guitar riffs at the end (2) inspired by the traditional Latin music that our parents sang to us when I was a kid. 

Recorded in (2021/2022) at the Davout II studio (24100 Bergerac) 

Digital editing, mixing and artistic production by Laurent Simonnet at Chance studio (33000 Bordeaux) 

Mastered by Martin Lascelles at Skymusic Studio 24 (24274 Monbazillac) 

Creation of the cover: Thibaud (24100 Bergerac) 

Production: Gepetto Music 

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Brian Tarquin & Heavy Friends "Beyond The Warrior's Eyes"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Rock, Fusion
Label: Downtown Music
Format: digital 
Release date: January 19, 2024
Tracklist

1   Behind the Iron Curtain 

2   Beyond the Warrior’s Eyes 

3   Common Valor 

4   Faith & Hope 

5   The Gates of Valhalla 

6   La Sierre Del Norte 

7   Quiet Desperation 

8   A Soldier’s Journey 

9   These Colors Don’t Run 

Credits
Brian Tarquin - all instruments
  Except
Reggie Pryor - drums
Jean Luc Ponty (2)
Eric Johnson (5)
Robben Ford (Miles Davis) (7)
Steve Morse (Deep Purple) (4,9)
Dean Brown (David Sanborn) (5)
Hal Lindes (Dire Straits) (2)
Chris Poland (Megadeth) (1)
John Tropea (Billy Cobham) (4)
Steve Kindler (Jeff Beck) (8)
Carl Verheyen (Supertramp) (6)
Larry McCray (John Mayall) (3)
Phil Naro (9)
Budapest Symphony Orchestra (8)

Recorded in Jungle Room Studios
Produced, engineered and composed by Brian Tarquin

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